Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although it expects far-reaching changes from the improvement of working conditions in U.S. firms, the report minimizes the firms' role in South Africa in other areas. It claims U.S. investment represents "only a small faction of the local economy." This is simply untrue. As the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), a Washington-based group that examines ethical implications of corporate investment, points out, U.S. subsidiaries in South Africa provide important strategic inputs to the South African government--for instance, they supply almost half the market for computers; a third of the country's motor vehicles; and over two-fifths...
International Cooperation. It is evident that Italy's Red Brigades have ties to West Germany's Red Army Faction, the Japanese Red Army and radical Palestinian groups. Hence, for the sake of survival, states threatened by terrorists need to develop new, transnational means of dealing with a common enemy. Some steps in this direction have been taken. Virtually every police force in Western Europe cooperated with the West Germans in trying to track down the killers of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall. Shortly after the Moro kidnaping, the Interior Ministers of West Germany, Italy and Switzerland...
...water packs." Still, it remains to be seen whether efforts to eradicate economic injustice in a democratic manner would solve the present problem; it is not, after all, the have-nots who are taking to terrorism now. The militant zealots of the Red Brigades and the Red Army Faction are largely middle-class youths. Since they offer no program but destruction, it seems unlikely that even significant social and economic improvements would satisfy them. In their case, the democratic imperative is to isolate them from the rest of society without destroying them-and society-by counterterror created out of terror...
...late K'ang Sheng, onetime internal security boss. The minigang members have also been blasted by the Teng-controlled People's Daily, which has called them "hyenas, wolfish animals." The four, along with other backers of Mme. Mao, have also been attacked as the "wind faction," "slip-away faction" and "coverup faction." Meaning: they have bent with the wind, crept away from difficulties and concealed their crimes...
Members of the West German terrorist group, the Red Army Faction, were natural suspects because the Moro incident was strikingly similar, both in its cold-blooded sophistication and its implementation, to the abduction last September of West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. One witness thought she heard a kidnaper speak in German , ''Achtung! Achtung!'' Another bystander was waved off by a terrorist who spoke with what sounded like heavily accented Italian. An additional element was the chilling professional precision exhibited by one of the killers. One bodyguard had managed...